SCO-30806 Physical Modelling

Course

Credits 6.00

Language of instruction:

English

Expected knowledge on:

SCO-21806 Process Engineering EA, SCO-22803

Contents:

Nowadays computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques become more and more integrated into the design of technical biosystems. In addition to this, CFD is also used in the analyses of complex environmental problems. The result of this is that an increasing amount of life science applications of CFD appears in literature with a focus on flow visualization, calculation of heat losses and concentration profiles. In order to have some insight into CFD techniques, in this course we start with traditional physical modelling issues as: balance equations, analogy between heat-mass-momentum, dimension analysis, convection-diffusion with sink/source terms, Navier-Stokes equation and an illustration of numerical schemes. The physical modelling exercises will be implemented on a computer using Matlab PDI-tool and tested on laboratory setups.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the course, it is expected that the student is able:
- to understand the basic principles of transport phenomena;
- to perform, analyze and evaluate experiments;
- to abstract a real system into a physical model;
- to implement and analyze the physical model using dedicated Matlab-based software;
- to apply CFD techniques to own research case.

Activities:

- lectures and tutorials;
- practical work including preparation, performing, analysing and reporting;
- implementation models in Matlab;
- working out one case in own specialism.

Examination:

- practical work including reports: 50%;
- case reports: 50%.

Literature:

No literature available.